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Advice to Conservatives: Think twice
What’s to be done about Andrew Scheer? He’s the most Western-entrenched Conservative leader since—well, since Rona Ambrose, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Preston Manning, Joe Clark and John...
THE COLUMNISTS
Advice to Conservatives: Think twice
What’s to be done about Andrew Scheer? He’s the most Western-entrenched Conservative leader since—well, since Rona Ambrose, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Preston Manning, Joe Clark and John...
NATIONAL
Where the Conservatives lost
A riding-by-riding breakdown of the election results shows the Conservatives’ biggest weaknesses—and a troubling urban-rural divide Much will be written and said about the fact that the Conservative...
Separatist nonstarter
Canada is the best country in the world, and no province is leaving. What is real is the anger and Justin Trudeau is ill-suited to deal with it. There is no national unity crisis in Canada and a lot...
Regionalism is nothing new
Politics are not significantly more regionalized today than they were in 2015. But Quebec is the anomaly. OPINION A prominent theme in the wave of commentary on last week’s election is Canada’s...
Resistance is futile
In our liberal society, gay rights will not be denied or ever turned back. It’s something any leader of Canada has to get their head around. OPINION Which side of history does Andrew Scheer want to be...
Who killed Barry and Honey Sherman?
A new book by Kevin Donovan, the chief investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, offers fascinating insights The murders of Honey and Barry Sherman, the billionaire couple found dead in their...
The library is open—to Meghan Murphy and everyone else
A controversial writer speaks her piece, and the Toronto Public Library makes good on its commitment to the ‘widest diversity of opinions and perspectives’ “When the library is open,” the American...
INTERNATIONAL
ISIS is dead. But not gone.
Travelling across northern Syria, the ghosts of the world’s most violent terrorist organization are everywhere. The war is far from over. The ghost town that ISIS commanders once called home in...
Bottom of the ninth in D.C.
Donald Trump’s foes in the Capitol would rather strike him out with the whole world watching than let him skulk off the field The slugger in the batter’s box with a four-seam fastball coming at his...
ECONOMY
A really big deal
Anthony Markus started farming in Manitoba’s Carrot Valley with $10,000 and 400 acres. Today his property is part of a 24,000-acre parcel up for sale for $53 million. Late one night in 1954, Anthony...
The advanced team
Paladin Security Group has grown from humble roots into Canada’s largest full-service security firm by matching its people to the jobs that best suit them Before he was the CEO, Ashley Cooper was a...
SOCIETY
Separate paths
Harry and William are both skeptical of the press. Harry’s public emotion contrasts with William’s comparative ease with the media. The reverberations of Harry and Meghan’s explosive and raw...
All alone 101
Loneliness is a silent resident on post-secondary campuses. Why aren’t we talking about it? On a warm Friday evening in early September, the city around Fatima Khan is alive. People spill onto the...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Reclaimed wood
In one of our favourite stories this week Lindsay Jones talks to the hunters who made a thrilling and mysterious discovery high on the Arctic tundra: a tree stump His hunting party had set out under a...
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